Jeb’s Post-Debate Fundraising Letter
Posted: October 29, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Mediasphere, Politics, The Butcher's Notebook, White House | Tags: Fundraising, GOP, Jeb 2016, Jeb Bush, Presidential Campaign, Presidential Campaign 2016 Leave a commentMyra Adams: Is the IRS in Collusion with the Clinton Foundation?
Posted: September 27, 2015 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Law & Justice, Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: Advertising mail, Aid, Amazon Kindle, Animal Welfare, Charitable organization, Charity Commission for England and Wales, Christian Today, Cold calling, Fundraising, World Wide Fund for Nature Leave a commentCharles Ortel’s quest to expose Clinton Foundation fraud has a Lois Lerner connection.
Myra Adams writes: Does anyone remember Henry Markopolos? In case you don’t, he was the former securities industry executive who for nine years persistently, but unsuccessfully, tried to convince the U.S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that the respected securities investment firm headed by Bernie Madoff was engaged in massive long-term fraud.
Fast forward to 2009 when Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison for operating the largest private Ponzi scheme in history adding up to billions of dollars in client losses.
In 2010, Markopolos wrote about his dramatic whistle-blower experience in a book aptly titled, “No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller.”
So why am I bringing up the heroic efforts of Harry Markopolos?
The answer is a whistle-blower in the mold of Markopolos has come to my attention and his name is Charles Ortel. Like Markopolos, Ortel has a background as a financial industry executive in addition to a successful track record of identifying economic trends and systemic problems within companies, most notably General Electric.
Throughout 2015, Ortel has carefully studied and documented a decade’s worth of domestic and global fraud, theft, corruption and violations of strict IRS rules being perpetrated by a prestigious multi-billion dollar charitable organization known as the Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
Unlike Markopolos, who went to the SEC and was largely ignored because of incompetence, Ortel believes that the IRS is actively in collusion with the Clinton Foundation.
Collusion with the high-profile charity explains why the IRS is not thoroughly investigating Ortel’s carefully documented allegations of illegal activity on a scale so grand that a major audit would certainly be triggered if the name of the foundation was not “Clinton.”
Only collusion explains why, for over a decade, the IRS has allowed the Clinton Foundation, and all its umbrella organizations with different names to operate outside the strict rules and regulations under which all tax-exempt charities must operate or risk losing their tax-exempt status. Read the rest of this entry »
Secretary of State Speaking Fees Compared
Posted: June 19, 2015 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: Boys and Girls Club of Long Beach, charity, Clinton Foundation, Condi Rice, Democratic Party, Fundraising, GOP, Hillary Clinton, Pantsuit Report, Secretary of State Leave a commentHong Kong Protesters Considering Retreat
Posted: December 4, 2014 Filed under: Asia, China, Global | Tags: Beijing, Cathay Pacific, Democracy, Fundraising, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Federation of Students, Moral and National Education, National League for Democracy, Occupy Central, Occupy movement, Pan-democracy camp, Protest 1 Comment
HONG KONG— Mia Lamar and Isabella Steger reporting: Student protesters demanding greater democracy for Hong Kong said Thursday they are more seriously weighing a retreat from the roads they have occupied for more than two months.
The remarks were the latest sign of the narrowing options that the protesters face as police have increased their efforts to remove the demonstrators from the streets and public support for the occupation of busy city thoroughfares has faded.
“Occupying here doesn’t put enough pressure on the government. If it put enough pressure, we wouldn’t be here two months….In the end, we didn’t get what we want, but this movement inspired people that we can’t live like this anymore.”
— 18-year-old student Timothy Sun
The Hong Kong Federation of Students, a group of university students at the helm of the protests, and Scholarism, a teenage student protest group, could issue a decision over whether to retreat from the encampments within the next week, according to student leaders.

A street cleaner pushes her cart between rows of tents at the pro-democracy movement’s main protest site in Hong Kong’s Admiralty district. Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
Yvonne Leung, a spokeswoman for HKFS, made the remarks on a local radio program. Eighteen-year-old Scholarism leader Joshua Wong separately told The Wall Street Journal that his group, which works closely with HKFS, is also considering a retreat. Mr. Wong is in the third day of a hunger strike, along with four other teen members of his group.
“For me, I think it’s time to adjust tactics. Retreat doesn’t necessarily mean failure.”
— Student leader
Protesters are calling for the right of citizens to select their own candidates for the city’s top leadership post, not those vetted by Beijing as per a decision handed down by the National People’s Congress in August. Those calls have been rejected by the government as nonnegotiable under Hong Kong’s Basic Law, a “mini-constitution” held with Beijing. The city will vote in 2017 for its next chief executive, a five-year appointment. Read the rest of this entry »
MoveOn.org Flaming Fundraising Freakout Anguish Crisis Panic Message of the Day
Posted: August 13, 2014 Filed under: Breaking News, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Democrats, Fundraising, Global Panic of 2014, Mid-Term Election, MoveOn.org, Political action committee, Senate 1 Comment[IMAGE] Kimberly Guilfoyle Warns Putin
Posted: July 30, 2014 Filed under: Humor, Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: Democrats, Fundraising, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Obama, The Five, Vladimir Putin, White House 2 CommentsDear Friend: I’m Suing Obama
Posted: January 16, 2014 Filed under: Law & Justice, Politics, The Butcher's Notebook, White House | Tags: Fundraising, GOP, Humor, Justice, Lawsuit, Obama, Republican, RNC 3 CommentsA letter from the RNC. I decorated it a little…
House Democrat’s Low Fundraising Sparks Retirement Rumors (Again)
Posted: October 9, 2013 Filed under: Politics, U.S. News | Tags: Collin Peterson, Congress, Democratic Party, Democratic Party (United States), Democrats, Federal Election Commission, Fundraising, midterm elections, Minnesota, Mitt Romney, Peterson, Roll Call 2 Comments
Peterson posted weak fundraising again. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call File Photo)
Emily Cahn reports: Rep. Collin C. Peterson, D-Minn., raised about $83,000 in the third quarter, according to his third-quarter fundraising report filed with the Federal Election Commission.
Peterson’s fundraising haul is $10,000 less than last quarter’s fundraising total — both considered to be paltry sums for a long-time member of Congress. He reported $227,000 in the bank.
Such a small haul raises questions about Peterson’s plans for 2014 because weak fundraising can signal that a member is looking to retire. On Tuesday, Peterson’s campaign said in a statement that the congressman is still considering his plans for 2014.
“It’s premature to read too much into Congressman Peterson’s report this fundraising quarter given that he does not yet have an opponent, he is still considering whether he will run again, and the amount raised is similar to what he’s raised previously in off-year quarters,” the campaign said in the statement. “At this time, he remains focused on getting the farm bill completed.”
Republicans publicly pushed Peterson to retire earlier this year, knowing that Minnesota’s 7th District would be more competitive if he was not on the ballot.
GOP nominee Mitt Romney carried Peterson’s district with a 10-point margin in 2012.
There are no Republicans currently challenging Peterson this cycle. However businessman Scott Van Binsbergen has been eyeing a bid, and moved closer to making a decision last month, he told CQ Roll Call in a phone interview. Minnesota’s 7th District is rated a Democrat Favored contest by Rothenberg Political Report/Roll Call